Engineering Product Manager

• Apr 2021 - Present

Senior Development Engineer

• Jul 2019 - Apr 2021

Engineer

• Jan 2017 - Jul 2019

Chemical Engineer II

• Mar 2015 - Apr 2016

- Designed, built, and tested a reactor to continuously produce hydrogen bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (HFSI), an important precursor for electrolyte and ionic liquid production. Went from concept to first successful demonstration in two weeks.- Scaled up bench scale continuous HFSI reactor and integrated it into a near-production level system to obtain data on product conversion and purity at a variety of operating conditions. Improved production rate per volume of reactor over current batch techniques by a factor of 90.- Rapidly adapt to make improvements in development systems in response to unforeseen challenges to keep systems productive.- Designed and built an improved adsorption bed to prevent channeling flow for ionic liquid purification.- Development of PFD's, P&ID's, SOP's, and BOM's for new systems.- Completion of LabVIEW Core 1 & Core 2 online training program. Updated HMI to improve operations and data availability.- Continual improvement of current systems to improve safety, operability, and turnaround time between experiments.- Experience in the safe handling of anhydrous HF and other dangerous chemicals, including full face respirators and full body chemical suits.

Development Engineer

• Jan 2012 - Mar 2015

-Development of standard operating procedures, PFD's, and P&ID's-Design of experiments to aid in future reactor design - Innovative software and database solutions for automated chemical process data processing and analysis-Extensive experience in the safe operation of an experimental lab scale biomass gasification system.- HAZOP study lead for biomass gasification process scale up-Proficient in database creation and maintenance using MySQL and FileMaker Pro. -Object-oriented programming experience using Python for data processing and analysis.-Statistical analysis using JMP software.-Create written reports outlining experimental results with LaTeX.

Senior Thesis Candidate

• Aug 2011 - Apr 2012

-Researched surface chemistry of benzylic compounds on a Pd(111) crystal using temperature programmed reaction spectroscopy.-Calculated energetics of adsorption structures and reaction intermediates through molecular simulations using density functional theory. -Researched surface chemistry of benzylic compounds on a Pd(111) crystal using temperature programmed reaction spectroscopy.-Calculated energetics of adsorption structures and reaction intermediates through molecular simulations using density functional theory.

Engineering Intern

• May 2009 - Aug 2010

-Assembled and maintained bench-scale gas flow systems for temperature and pressure swing adsorption processes.-Conducted and analyzed over 2000 adsorption cycle tests to test a carbon dioxide adsorbent. -Assembled and maintained bench-scale gas flow systems for temperature and pressure swing adsorption processes.-Conducted and analyzed over 2000 adsorption cycle tests to test a carbon dioxide adsorbent.